Pearl of Great PriceOct 22, 20216 minOct 7 - Mother Teresa founds her orderToday in 1950, Mother Teresa founded the religious order the Missionaries of Charity. Today she received permission from the Holy See to...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 15, 20213 minOct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 12, 20215 minSep 28 The Obelisk that 'witnessed' St Peters DeathWe go back to year 1586 and travel to Rome where a large pink granite obelisk known as "The Witness", was moved to its present location...
Pearl of Great PriceOct 2, 20213 minSep 26 Abraham Lincolns call for prayer and fasting1861 and travel to Washington DC in North America where today President Abraham Lincoln recommended a day of public humiliation, prayer,...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 30, 20213 minSep 24 The Venerable BedeToday in the year 654 the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church opened. It was convened in Hertford, by Theodore of Tarsus,...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 28, 20213 minSep 20 Christianity in KoreaToday in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 20, 20215 minSep 11 Bartolome de la CasasToday in the Spanish priest and fierce defender of indigenous peoples Bartolome de la casas ended his term as bishop of Chiapas in...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 14, 20214 minSep 8 Worshipping God through discovering GenesToday in 1989 the journal Science published the results of the work of Francis Collins who identified the gene which explained cystic...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 8, 20214 minSep 3 The Heliand - Old Norse Epic Poem about the life of ChristToday in 1830 the first complete edition of the Heliand was published by Johann Andreas Schmeller. This was a ninth century epic poem...
Pearl of Great PriceSep 2, 20214 minSep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movementEdward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 29, 20213 minAug 27 The first businessman to be declared a saint? Today it's 1962 and we travel to Argentina where Enrique Ernesto Shaw, the Founder of the Christian Association of Business Executives...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 27, 20214 minAug 23 The Violent death of Brother Roger of TaizéToday we travel to Taizé in France where today in 2005 the founder of the world famous ecumenical community was buried days after he had...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 27, 20213 minAug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford LecturesIts 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 27, 20213 minAugust 20 Bultmann and Demythologisation Today we travel to Germany where the influential Lutheran theologian Rudolf Karl Bultmann was born in 1884. One of the pioneers of the...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 20, 20213 minAug 19 The Moabite Stone & the ExodusIts 1868 and we are in Jordan where late in the afternoon during a coffee break, the sheikh of the Banî Hamîdi tribe informed the German...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 20, 20214 minAug 17 Excavating Armageddon Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 6, 20215 minAug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics AnonymousToday in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....
Pearl of Great PriceAug 6, 20214 minAug 4 Dr Grenfell in Labrador & the Seafarers Mission Today we travel to Labrador in Canada where Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell arrived on the remote Canadian Atlantic coast to work with colonists...
Pearl of Great PriceAug 2, 20213 minAug 1 The Vikings, Bluetooth and Ethewold Ethelwold of Winchester died today. After the spiritual damage left by Danish invasions, caused by relentless raids on monasteries,...
Pearl of Great PriceJul 27, 20214 minJuly 28 The Iron Age Stone which tells story of IsraelToday an English archaeologist, Flinders Petrie discovered a remarkable stone with an inscription on it by the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh...